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FCC dings T-Mobile $40M for faking rings on calls that never connected
Apr 16, 6:10PM
T-Mobile will pay $40 million as part of a settlement with the FCC for playing ringing sounds to mislead customers into thinking their calls were going through when in fact they had never connected in the first place. The company admitted it had done so "hundreds of millions" of times over the years.
Diversity and inclusion, data privacy and security ops will be on everyone's mind at RSA
Apr 16, 5:30PM
Monzy Merza Contributor Monzy Merza is the chief security evangelist at Splunk. More posts by this contributor The four cybersecurity terms everyone is talking about at Black Hat How The Rules Of Cyber Engagement Have Changed This week, 50,000 security professionals will descend upon San Francisco for the 27th Annual RSA Security Conference, arguably the largest […]
See you on Thursday in Chicago
Apr 16, 4:51PM
Some folks I met in Chicago are holding an amazing event at a great place on South Canalport Avenue. This former macaroni factory now builds startups and I'll be helping judge their pitch-off alongside some Chicago luminaries. You can RSVP here and sign up for a spot to pitch here. They’ll choose eight startups to […]
Bumble drops Facebook login requirement
Apr 16, 4:37PM
The week after Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress, Bumble is announcing it will no longer require that users have a Facebook account to log in. The popular women-first dating app is set to institute the change to its registration process tomorrow. Facebook has long been a prerequisite for signing up for the service, […]
Target debuts same-day delivery for in-store purchases in some urban markets
Apr 16, 4:05PM
Target wants to make it easier for customers in urban markets to shop its store and get their hauls home, without having to lug their bags onto the subway or other public transit. These customers may skip buying heavier items like 12-packs of soda, big bags of dog food, gallons of water, new bedding sets […]
Coinbase buys Earn.com and makes CEO Balaji Srinivasan its first CTO
Apr 16, 4:00PM
Coinbase, the prominent cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its most significant piece of M&A to date after it agreed to buy Earn.com, the U.S. startup that uses the blockchain for its paid-email service, in a deal worth more than $120 million. In addition, Coinbase has appointed Earn.com co-founder and CEO Balaji Srinivasan as its first CTO, […]
Lyft riders tipped 8% more on average in 2017
Apr 16, 4:00PM
Lyft drivers have earned more than $500 million in tips to date, Lyft announced today. Since fleshing out tip functionality last June to encourage higher tip amounts, tip averages increased by nearly 8 percent in 2017 compared to 2016. While it took four years for Lyft to reach $100 million in tips for its drivers, […]
Watch SpaceX launch NASA's latest exoplanet-hunting satellite
Apr 16, 3:46PM
SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket today during a 30-second window at 6:32pm EDT. On board is NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), designed to find exoplanets. SpaceX said this morning there’s an 80 percent chance of launching today. Following the launch, SpaceX will attempt to recover the Falcon 9 rocket and […]
Here's the ultra-low-light phone camera Sony promised
Apr 16, 3:34PM
Sony promised an “ultra low-light camera” during its Mobile World Congress press conference back in February. The off-hand announcement was intended to throw a bit of shade at Samsung's recent flagship, but ultimately had the unintended consequence of undermining the company's own newly announced XZ2. But, then, Sony's never been great when it comes to […]
Domino's will now deliver to 150,000 parks, pools and other non-traditional locations
Apr 16, 3:31PM
Domino’s will now deliver your pizza to the beach — well, sort of! Or the park, the sports field, that one gas station down the road or some notable landmark in your city where it will be easy for your delivery driver to find you, among other places. The company announced today the launch of […]
Porsche plans 500 fast-charging stations across US
Apr 16, 3:24PM
Porsche is planning a Supercharger-like network of fast-charging stations at dealerships and highway locations across the US. There will be at least 500 by the end of 2019 according to Klaus Zellmer, CEO of Porsche Cars North America, speaking to Automotive News. The timing coincides with the launch of its Mission E electric vehicle that […]
Tesla updates user interface, web browser in older Model S and Model X vehicles
Apr 16, 3:09PM
A recent update is bringing an improved user interface to older Tesla vehicles. According to this report citing forum users, the v8.1 (2018.14) update improves the speed and capability in Model S and Model X vehicles equipped with an Nvidia Tegra 3-powered MCU. This was expected; Elon Musk stated in late December 2017 that Tesla […]
Bolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to market
Apr 16, 3:07PM
There’s a new world of lab-grown replacements coming for everything, from the meat department in your grocery store to a department store near you. Lab-made leather replacements will soon join vegetable-based meat replacements on store shelves thanks to startups like Bolt Threads, which today announced that it would join companies like Modern Meadow in the […]
U.S. companies banned from selling components to ZTE
Apr 16, 2:44PM
This time last year, Chinese electronics giant ZTE pled guilty to violating sanctions on Iran and North Korea. This morning, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a seven-year export restriction for the company, resulting in a ban on U.S. component makers selling to ZTE. The company's initial guilty plea was met with up to $1.2 billion […]
Russia starts blocking Telegram for failing to turn over encryption keys
Apr 16, 2:39PM
The Russian state telecommunication regulator has started to block Telegram, as expected. This comes after the messaging company refused to give Russian security services encryption keys. The service is expected to be blocked in the coming hours. According to several reports, Telegram is still operational in the country though several service providers have started blocking the […]
UK report urges action to combat AI bias
Apr 16, 2:36PM
The need for diverse development teams and truly representational data-sets to avoid biases being baked into AI algorithms is one of the core recommendations in a lengthy Lords committee report looking into the economic, ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence, and published today by the upper House of the UK parliament. “The main ways […]
iHeartRadio opens up its playlists to all users with launch of Playlist Radio
Apr 16, 2:20PM
iHeartRadio is best known for its free service offering thousands of live, streaming AM and FM radio stations and its ability to create your own custom station, similar to Pandora. Today, the company is adding a new feature for all users – both free and paid – that blurs the lines between streaming radio and […]
Elon Musk's latest SpaceX idea involves a party balloon and bounce house
Apr 16, 2:18PM
Elon Musk took to Twitter Sunday night to announce a new recovery method for an upper stage SpaceX rocket. A balloon — a “giant party balloon” to quote him directly — will ferry part of a rocket to a bounce house. Seriously. If anyone else proposed this idea they would be ignored, but Elon Musk […]
DeferPanic secures $1.5 M seed round to popularize unikernel concept
Apr 16, 2:17PM
We’ve all probably heard of containers and virtual machines by now. Virtualization enabled IT to break down a single server into multiple machines. Containers allowed you take that concept and make it even smaller. DeferPanic wants to take another step with a technology called Unikernels. Today, the company announced its $1.5 million seed round. The […]
Tony Fadell is worried about smartphone addiction
Apr 16, 1:59PM
This weekend, former Apple engineer and consumer gadget legend Tony Fadell penned an op-ed for Wired. In it, he argued that smartphone manufacturers need to do a better job of educating users about how often they use their mobile phones, and the resulting dangers that overuse might bring about. Take healthy eating as an analogy: […]
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